American Overseas Research
Centers participating in the Local Libraries and Archives Project are located in the Mediterranean
basin; the Middle East and North Africa; West Africa; South, Southeast, and Inner Asia; and Latin
America. CAORC member centers located in Europe are not participating in this project
because research resources available in their host countries are already very well documented.

As the project work is initiated in each country, we will add a description of the local project and
the names of collaborating local institutions, keyed to the alphabetical list of centers immediately below.

The section below gives descriptions of the local components of the LALORC project as undertaken
by the participating AORC centers and their local partner organizations, alphabetized by country. This
information will be updated as new projects are started serially over the first three years of the
project. For those interested in finding out more about the individual centers and their programs,
the ORC names below are linked to the centers' own websites.

Project: Survey, cataloging, and selective preservation and digitization of materials held in
collaborating libraries

Partners The Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Library, Archives, and Institutes of History and Language);
Mongolian National University (various libraries); Ulaanbaatar City Library (various collections); Antoon
Mostart Center; International Mongolian Studies Association; Library of Congress

Project: AIPS will survey libraries not included in its initial survey program
(Private Libraries and Archives Survey Project [PLASP]), primarily libraries belonging to the
Directorate-General of Archaeology and Museums, as well as several university libraries

Project: The LALORC project coordinator will work with CSAL staff to organize the content of
already-completed surveys, and to pave the way for further surveying work to be initiated in future projects.

Partner: In Pakistan CSAL will cooperate with the American Institute of Pakistan Studies'
Private Libraries and Archives Survey